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Taiwan Says It Was Warned by China to Not Interfere in the Detention of Taiwanese Boat Crew

Taiwan said that China warned Taiwan’s coast guard against interfering in the detention of a Taiwanese fishing boat, in what is seen as Beijing's latest attempt to encroach on Taiwanese territory.
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Taiwan said Wednesday that China warned Taiwan’s coast guard against interfering in the detention of a Taiwanese fishing boat, in what is seen as Beijing's latest attempt to encroach on Taiwanese territory. Taiwan's coast guard repeated its call for the release of the boat and its crew members who were taken from waters off the Taiwanese-controlled island of Kinmen just off the Chinese coast on Tuesday night. That call is complicated by China’s refusal to communicate with Taiwan’s government.
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#Japan confirms #China set up buoy over its southern continental shelfThe Japanese government said Friday it has confirmed China has installed a buoy in the high seas over Japan's southern continental shelf in the Pacific Ocean, in a move that could further strain bilateral relations.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told a news conference it was "regrettable" that China has set up a small buoy in the waters off Japan's western main island of Shikoku and north of the southernmost Okinotori Island "without explaining its purpose and other details."The government has urged China not to undermine Japan's maritime interests, with Beijing responding that it installed the buoy to monitor tsunami and does not intend to infringe upon Tokyo's sovereignty over the continental shelf, the top government spokesman said.Japan confirmed that the Chinese survey ship Xiang Yang Hong 22 set up the buoy in mid-June while monitoring the vessel as it sailed through Japan's exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea, a government source said. The open-sea area in question is surrounded by Japan's EEZ.Hayashi said the Japanese government will continue to collect related information and analyze it.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the buoy, which is to monitor tsunami, was set up in the high seas "for the purposes of scientific research and serving public good" and doing so is "a well-established international practice" based on the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea."Japan has no right to interfere in such activities," she told a press conference in Beijing.Last July, China installed another buoy inside Japan's EEZ near the Tokyo-controlled, Beijing-claimed uninhabited Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, prompting Japan to lodge a protest and demand its immediate removal.Mao said that as the islands, which Beijing calls Diaoyu, are part of China's territory and its surrounding waters are under the country's jurisdiction, it is "legitimate and lawful for China to set up hydrological and meteorological data buoys in those areas."China has been intensifying its military activities and maritime assertiveness in the regional waters, with Japan protesting against repeated intrusions by Chinese ships into Japanese waters around the Senkakus.

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China Economy One Big Smoke & Mirrors Show:

Or maybe more like inflated bouncy house. BTW this wonderful woman makes full length videos shining a light where the CCP doesn't want it shined. ;)
 
DEFCON Warning System said:
Taiwan is a lost cause, militarily, I think. If China were to go in, the US couldn't stop it.

Yes, militarily, the US can stomp China. The problem is, China has a billion slaves the throw at the battle, and the US won't tolerate many losses.
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It's a good thing the government in a bipartisan effort as of recent has spent a lot of time and money on getting chip manufacturers to come back and set up shop here.

Although if I recall, remember reading 1 of the 4-5 new chip plants being made in America currently is set to be operational within less then a years time and another plant having major set backs. So mix results so far. Want to say it was the Texas plant that was having set backs.
 
DEFCON Warning System said:
Taiwan is a lost cause, militarily, I think. If China were to go in, the US couldn't stop it.

Yes, militarily, the US can stomp China. The problem is, China has a billion slaves the throw at the battle, and the US won't tolerate many losses.
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Wow I remember when the Ukraine issue started. I stated Ukraine couldn't possibly win against Russia because of population sizes. Your response was different then. In conventional conflicts nowadays it does count. Russia will win.
China will aswell. Not only through boots but weapon capacity and capabilities aswell as reproduction and strategy.
 
Yingyang said:
Wow I remember when the Ukraine issue started. I stated Ukraine couldn't possibly win against Russia because of population sizes. Your response was different then. In conventional conflicts nowadays it does count. Russia will win.
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Ukraine is different. The US isn't throwing its own troops at it.
 
It'd all depend on what kind of mood Trump would be in, remember the weird nuclear comments he made about China which made some of his advisors call them to calm them down. Either way, what only would work against China would be proper deterrence, which I'm unsure how he would even do. Signaling that Taiwan needs to pay more to the US in order for protection isn't exactly something that would deter China from it.
 
Cilvilt_beredskap said:
It'd all depend on what kind of mood Trump would be in, remember the weird nuclear comments he made about China which made some of his advisors call them to calm them down. Either way, what only would work against China would be proper deterrence, which I'm unsure how he would even do. Signaling that Taiwan needs to pay more to the US in order for protection isn't exactly something that would deter China from it.
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The biggest deterrent to China is trade and finance. But just like the military deterrent who knows if the US leadership would have the balls to flip that switch.
I don’t think Biden does.

The sobering thing to remember is reflect on the run up to WW2. The US was experiencing a great deal of debate and push back to becoming involved in Europe or Asia.
A great deal like today. So do we do nothing or not enough until something happens that cant be ignored.
Or do we posture and position ourselves in such a way that acts of expansion like Ukraine or Taiwan are thought twice about by other nuclear nations.

I’ll go back to Reagan’s approach. Peace thru strength, and resolve.
For that the Biden /Obama administration’s have already shown their lack of resolve.
 
Taiwan Says Carried Out Missile Drills at Key Test Site:
Taiwan carried out on Tuesday missile drills simulating the interception of enemy aircraft and munitions at a key testing facility, as it aims to bolster its "combat effectiveness" amid tensions with China, which views the self-governing island as part of its territory.

In recent years, US-backed Taiwan has steadily enhanced its defense capabilities, securing major weapons deals and increasing its defense budget to support military reforms and develop indigenous weaponry.

China has made it clear that it will never renounce the use of force to bring back Taiwan under its control.
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During the exercise on Tuesday, Taiwan's military launched domestically produced Sky Bow III missiles and US-made Patriot II missiles from its Jiupeng base in southern Pingtung County.

This marked the first time in more than a decade that journalists were granted access to the base, which houses the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, a government-run facility specializing in weapons development.

"All the missiles fired today hit their targets smoothly. So it demonstrates... that the training of our officers and soldiers is very solid," Taipei's Defense Ministry Spokesperson Sun Li-fang told reporters.
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Taiwan’s top security officials make secret trip to US for talks:

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Visit to Washington area this week comes at sensitive time in relations between Beijing and Taipei. Taiwan’s top foreign policy officials have made a secret trip to the greater Washington area for talks with the US, the first such visit since President Lai Ching-te took office in May.

Foreign minister Lin Chia-lung and Joseph Wu, Taiwan’s national security adviser, have been in the Washington area this week for the talks that are known as the “special channel”, according to several people familiar with the visit.


The US and Taiwan have held the “special channel” talks for years, but their existence was first disclosed by the Financial Times in 2021 when the two sides, including Wu who was then foreign minister, met in Annapolis, Maryland. The channel is seen as a rare opportunity for a larger group of senior officials from both sides to hold detailed talks.
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Successive US administrations have kept the channel under wraps to avoid Chinese criticism of the sensitive engagement. Beijing claims sovereignty over Taiwan, which has maintained an unofficial relationship with Washington since the US normalised relations with China in 1979.

The last special channel was in February 2023 when Wu and Wellington Koo, then national security adviser and now defence minister, met the US side across the river from Washington in northern Virginia.

Under a long-standing practice, Taiwan’s foreign minister and defence minister cannot enter the District of Columbia, so the channel has usually been held in the greater Washington area.

The people familiar with the situation did not disclose the location or the timing of the discussions. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, the de facto Taiwanese embassy in Washington, declined to comment on the talks. The White House declined to comment.

The channel comes at a sensitive time as China watches to see how Lai will handle relations with Beijing and Washington. The Chinese government has described Lai as a “dangerous separatist” and worries that he is more likely to take steps towards official independence than his predecessor Tsai Ing-wen. Some US officials are also privately nervous about Lai, who is inexperienced in foreign affairs and seen as more unpredictable than Tsai.
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Evan Medeiros, a China expert at Georgetown University and former top White House Asia adviser, said the special channel was “one of the most sensitive and important mechanisms in global politics today”.

“The meeting comes at a critical time given Taiwan’s recent election. Clear and consistent communication between Taipei and Washington is essential, especially as People’s Republic of China pressure grows,” Medeiros added.

The US has grown increasingly concerned about rising Chinese military activity around Taiwan. China held huge military exercises around the island, including firing ballistic missiles overhead for the first time, in 2022 just after then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei. It has intensified its military activity since the Pelosi visit.

Randy Schriver, a former top Pentagon Asia official, said the special channel was always important because of the limited contacts allowed because of the unofficial relationship”. But he said it was particularly so now given the increasingly assertive Chinese military activity near Taiwan.

“A lot of people have the impression that [People’s Liberation Army] military activity spikes around events like the Pelosi visit or [presidential] inaugurations and then enters a normal and steady status quo, but the PLA continues to do more things and evolve. We are seeing more night-time exercises and things like air-air refuelling on the eastern side of Taiwan,” he said, citing one example.
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Taiwan’s top security officials make secret trip to US for talks

Visit to Washington area this week comes at sensitive time in relations between Beijing and Taipei
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U.S. sends destroyer through Taiwan Strait as China steps up warplane incursions around island:
A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed through the increasingly militarized Taiwan Strait on Thursday after Chinese forces stepped up their own warplane and warship activities around the island this week.
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson made a routine transit through the strait, which is 100 miles wide, in accordance with international law, the Navy’s 7th Fleet said in an online statement. The warship transit was the first by an American naval vessel in three months and the fourth operation of its kind this year.
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The Navy had been conducting near-monthly Taiwan Strait passages in an effort to counter expansive Chinese claims that the waterway is Beijing’s sovereign maritime territory.
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